Webinars
Preparing you for parental leave.
UNSW collaborates with Parents at Work to provide support to UNSW parents and soon-to-be parents, on topics such as Preparing for Parental Leave, Returning to Work After Parental Leave, and Managing Mental Wellbeing for You and Your Family.
Preparing for parental leave
In this interactive group session run by experts in parental leave transition Parents At Work, experienced coaches will provide practical tools and insightful tips that will support you, your family and your career as you prepare to go on parental leave. Whether it’s your first pregnancy, second or more, it is important to plan and prepare for a smooth transition and set yourself and your family up for a strong foundation on your return.
Topics covered include:
- Planning for parental leave
- Reviewing your career progress and plan
- Managing your pregnancy at work
- Making staying-in-touch during leave easier
- Planning for future flexible work arrangements
New sessions will be available soon.
Returning to work after parental leave
Returning to Work after parental leave can be both an exciting and challenging time with new routines to be navigated along with a mixture of emotions. This session will help you plan and prepare for your return to work. In this interactive group session run by experts in parental leave transition Parents At Work, experienced coaches will provide essential and informative tips on how to effectively manage your return to work. If you’ve already returned to work, this session will help to explore what is and isn’t working and re-evaluate what you need to make the return to work experience a positive one.
New sessions will be available soon.
Managing mental wellbeing for you and your family
This webinar 'meet up' is a chance to highlight the importance of mental wellbeing at every stage through life and to share ways to look after you, your children and extended family.
Hear from experts as we deliver ideas and tips to help you to support your family's mental wellbeing and how you can prioritise your own wellbeing. We'll explore common mental wellbeing challenges and strategies to help, along with tips on practical self-care routines and habits.
Who is this session for?
- Students and Staff
New sessions will be available soon.
National Carers Week: Supporting you through your care giving journey
In Australia alone, there are 2.65 million people who care for family and friends every, single, day. Often these roles are unpaid and performed alongside their formal work responsibilities.
Join us in National Carers Week 2023 as our partners from Parents At Work deliver a special session to raise awareness about Care Giving in Australia and offer support to those in caregiving roles.
Many of us have caregiving responsibilities be they formal or informal or will do so in future. This session will cover -
- The broad and important role carers occupy in our community
- Reflecting on the caring needs of your family and friends
- Getting on the front foot and planning for our future
- Importance of caring for the carer
Who is this session for?
- Students and Staff
New sessions will be available soon.
Get connected
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UNSW is an Employer Member of Parents At Work, a membership-based organisation that provides best-practice policy advisory services and resources to employers to ensure that they have flexible workplaces that focus on wellbeing, parental transition and wider caring services so that staff with parenting and/or caring responsibilities can thrive in their roles both within and outside the workplace.
UNSW's membership of Parents At Work supports our commitments made as part of the SAGE Athena SWAN Bronze Award Action Plan to advance gender equity and diversity at UNSW.
Scientia Professor Fiona Stapleton, UNSW's Athena SWAN lead, states that;
"UNSW's membership of Parents At Work will greatly contribute to the University's commitment to achieving gender equality by acknowledging that one of the barriers to greater participation of women in the workforce, including academia, are parenting and caring responsibilities that are disproportionately held by women. The resources and guidance provided by Parents At Work will assist UNSW in ensuring that we provide a family-friendly workplace supporting every staff member who is also a parent or carer to thrive in both their work and home lives."
Together with UNSW's Parents and Families Champions, Mei Lee and Keith Ooi, Parents At Work membership will help UNSW to build a holistic program of support for parents and families at UNSW, supporting staff to balance work and other responsibilities while progressing their careers.
